On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:09:44PM -0700, Greg wrote:
  

I simply need to remove the leading x amount of characters from a string.  
I have a username that looks like this:

ADOMAIN\jsmith
    

I would do this with a Python Script.

return str(container.REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER)[8:]

should do the trick.

Your DTML would be

<dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('authU', nameOfPythonScript)">

-Tim